Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Over 1 in 10 deaths globally caused by Ischaemic Stroke (IS) due to tobacco was reported in India. The revelation is part of a study by Oxford University which was released on Friday. Out of 187 countries, the number of people dying of stroke is third highest in India. Only …
Assam has become the first state in the country to impose a ban on the consumption of all forms of smokeless tobacco, including pan masala, by enacting a legislation that came into effect from today. The Act bans manufacturing, advertisement, trading, storage, distribution and sale of such substances. The Assam …
Sale, manufacturing, distribution and display of all forms of smokeless tobacco products will be banned in Assam from Thursday. State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced it in the Assembly on Wednesday. To ban the smokeless tobacco products in the State, in July last year, the Assam Health (Prohibition of …
The Assam government has imposed complete ban on non-smoking tobacco in the state from Thursday. Assam governor J.B. Patnaik has signed the anti-tobacco bill, which bans manufacturing, trade, advertisement, storage, distribution, sale and consumption of non-smoking tobacco in the state. Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said: “Our first aim …
On the eve of World Cancer Day on Tuesday, experts warned that Gujarat has become the breeding ground for oral cancers as over 1.3 crore Gujaratis are addicted to tobacco consumption. "National Cancer Registry Programme has indicated that Ahmedabad has the highest incidence of oral cancers in the country with …
Effective prevention measures are the only way to prevent cancer crisis, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) stated on Monday. The agency, which is part of the World Health Organization, also shed light on the alarming pace at which cancer cases are growing. According to IARC, in 2012, …
Despite the implementation of a national prevention programme and state-of-the-art infrastructure for treatment, Maharashtra has witnessed an alarming rise in cases of cancer among women in the last four years. In fact, after Uttar Pradesh, the largest number of cases have been detected in the state A week ago, during …
It is one report card, Bhopal will feel bad about. The city has shown an alarming rise in cases of mouth cancer with most cases an outcome of tobacco consumption, going by latest report of National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP). Among old NCRP, a network of cancer registries in India, …
These will be dubbed in 16 languages for pan India coverage The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will be replacing two anti-tobacco health spots with new ones titled--‘Child’ and ‘Dhuan’. The change will be effective from October 2. These spots will be dubbed in 16 languages for a …
Tobacco inflicts huge damage on the health of India’s people and could be clocking up a death toll of 1.5 million a year by 2020 if more users are not persuaded to kick the habit, an international report said on Thursday. Despite having signed up to a global treaty on …
This Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (TCP) report provides data-based scientific evidence on the current situation of tobacco control policy implementation and provides suggestions for more effective implementation.
As many as 10 lakh cancer cases have already been detected in India in current year with the case load set to shoot to 11.48 lakh by 2015 and 13.20 lakh by 2020. A whopping 27 pc of these cancers are associated with tobacco and increase in incidence of cancers …
Guwahati: A Bill was introduced in Assam Assembly on Tuesday by the State Health Department for imposing ban on consumption, trading, manufacturing, distribution and advertising of a wide range of tobacco and tobacco products and other items containing tobacco as an ingredient. The Bill was tabled by the State health …
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is implemented quickly by all nations, reports BSS. According to a new WHO report released in Geneva yesterday, each year tobacco …
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is implemented quickly by all nations. According to a new WHO report released in Geneva on Wednesday, each year tobacco kills an approximately …
The continued success in global tobacco control is detailed in this year’s WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2013. The fourth in the series, this year’s report presents the status of the MPOWER measures, with country-specific data updated and aggregated through 2012. In addition, the report provides a special …
Kageri of BJP, a former minister is a key producer of arecanut Karnataka government today said the ban on gutka would stay, rejecting the demand of the opposition BJP which argued that the move would hit arecanut growers in the State. At the end of a debate on the issue …
Aizawl: Tobacco presently kills nearly six million people every year and the WHO estimated that the weed will take times of more than eight million by 2030. World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), which is observed on May 31 is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms …
VARANASI: District health department is not holding any awareness programme to mark World No Tobacco Day on Friday. Chief medical officer MP Chaurasia is waiting for guidelines from the authorities. World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31. This year, the theme is 'Free Yourself'. Tobacco kills nearly six …
Cancer might become the leading cause of death for non-communicable diseases by 2015 in the country if the current trend of significant increase in different cancers’ continued unabated, two cancer experts Dr. P. Vijay Anand Reddy and Dr. Senthil J. Rajappa have said. Dr. Reddy, Director of Apollo Cancer Hospital, …
